v0.15.1.txt

.. _whatsnew_0151:

v0.15.1 (November ??, 2014)
-----------------------

This is a minor release from 0.15.0 and includes a small number of API changes, several new features,
enhancements, and performance improvements along with a large number of bug fixes. We recommend that all
users upgrade to this version.

- Highlights include:

- :ref:`Enhancements <whatsnew_0151.enhancements>`
- :ref:`API Changes <whatsnew_0151.api>`
- :ref:`Performance Improvements <whatsnew_0151.performance>`
- :ref:`Experimental Changes <whatsnew_0151.experimental>`
- :ref:`Bug Fixes <whatsnew_0151.bug_fixes>`

.. _whatsnew_0151.api:

API changes
~~~~~~~~~~~


.. _whatsnew_0151.enhancements:

Enhancements
~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Added option to select columns when importing Stata files (:issue:`7935`)

- Qualify memory usage in ``DataFrame.info()`` by adding ``+`` if it is a lower bound (:issue:`8578`)


.. _whatsnew_0151.performance:

Performance
~~~~~~~~~~~


.. _whatsnew_0151.experimental:

Experimental
~~~~~~~~~~~~


.. _whatsnew_0151.bug_fixes:

Bug Fixes
~~~~~~~~~


- Bug in coercing ``Categorical` to a records array, e.g. ``df.to_records()`` (:issue:`8626)
- Bug in ``Categorical`` not created properly with ``Series.to_frame()`` (:issue:`8626`)
- Bug in coercing in astype of a ``Categorical`` of a passed ``pd.Categorical`` (this now raises ``TypeError`` correctly), (:issue:`8626`)
- Bug in ``cut``/``qcut`` when using ``Series`` and ``retbins=True`` (:issue:`8589`)









- Bug in numeric index operations of add/sub with Float/Index Index with numpy arrays (:issue:`8608`)







- Bug in ix/loc block splitting on setitem (manifests with integer-like dtypes, e.g. datetime64) (:issue:`8607`)














- Fix ``shape`` attribute for ``MultiIndex`` (:issue:`8609`)